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Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science a partnership in all art a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.

Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
Writer
Dublin city
Indeed
Perfection
Virtue
Society
Science
Art
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Every
Partnership
Contracts

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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity.
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Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.
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Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.
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I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Contempt is not a thing to be despised.
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